Mr. Friedman, could I ask you a question?
Steven L. Taylor
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Saturday, June 16, 2012
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An amusing Tumblr.
My fav: click.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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Hahaha !!!
I love it
Ditto Doug’s comment.
Why does the Times still employ a man that everyone, regardless of political persuasion, thinks is a pompous moron?
@Ron Beasley:
My personal theory involves photographs of a member of the Sulzberger family and, perhaps, a monkey.
@Doug Mataconis: I love it – the only possible explanation.
Nah… a monkey’d get a pass. A corpse. A Broadway corpse, dating back to the 50s.
All hail the Mustache of Understanding.
Unfortunately, not everyone finds him a moron. His book about Flatness was a bestseller, pretty popular here in Brazil(I remember seeing that with a “Recommend” attached to it in a book store) and it was always pretty easy to find translated articles from him in Brazilian newspapers.
Thank you, Steven for posting that link.
Thomas Friedman has such an obvious insufferable sense of self-importance – of course I might too if members of the punditocracy were constantly soliciting my opinion as to how to foster economic growth, end human rights abuse, and find a cure for pancreatic cancer.
He has a talent for making others believe that he makes very profound observations.
Regarding reviews for a book he pushed last year, from the NYT Book Review:
and this, from the Library Journal: